Improvement in extension settees



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Patented May 13, 1873.

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CORNELIUS BEATTY, OF ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN EXTENSION SETTEES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 138,842, dated May 13,1873; application filed April 5, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CORNELIUS BEATTY, of Elizabeth, in the county ofUnion and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Extension Settees, of which the following is aspecification:

The object of this invention is to so construct settees or lounges thatthey may be readily converted into beds for sleeping purposes 5 and itconsists in the Inode of extending the settee and in the manner offolding up the extension portion, and in the arrangement and combinationof parts hereinafter more fully set forth and described.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l, Sheet l, is a top or plan View ofthe settee eX- tended. Fig. 2, Sheet 2, is a side elevation of the same,giving an edge View of the folding mattress which is used for the bedwhen the settee is extended, as seen. Fig. 3 is an end view of thesettee as when folded up. Fig. 4. is a top view of the same, partly insection.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre# sponding parts.

A represents the frame of the settee B, the back; C, the cover or seat;D, the legs. The cover or seat is hinged to the back, as seen at E, Fig.3. The cover and back may be combined with cane lattice-work, or made inany style desired. Beneath the seat D is a recess, F, which may beinclosed with wood-work so as to form a tight chest, or by iron straps Gfor securing the mattress or other articles. The parts so far describeddo not relate to the extension part ofthe settee. This part of thesettee consists of two side pieces H H, each consisting of threesections, I, J, and K, and hinged to the front corners of the settee, asseen at L L. M represents the slats, which are dovetailed into thesides, as seen, for holding the sides together. N are legs attached tothe different sections of the sides H H for supporting the sides at aheight uniform with the settee-frame, as seen in Fig. 1. .O representshooks attached to the sides H H, which hook into staples in the endlegs, and act as braces to keep the extension. steady. f

When the extension is folded up, as seen in Figs. 3 and 4, the sides H Hare turned back on the hinges L L, so that the sections I I are broughtin contact with the ends of the settee-frame. They then turn on thehinges P P at the back corners of the settee, but the sections K K areturned and closed in against the sections J J, which latter are broughtparallel with the back ofthe settee, and are fastened together by meansof the hook Q, as seen in Fig. 4.

R is the mattress. This mattress is made so as to be folded up, and isstored away in the recess beneath the seat, where sheets and otherbedding may be kept ready for use.

The settee may be made for either a double or single bed, and may befinished in any style.

The extension part is very simple, cheap, and durable, and for steamersand hotels and for families where it may be necessary to economize roomit will be found a convenient and valuable piece of furniture.

l do not claim, broadly, an extension settee, as I am aware that theyhave been made before; but I am not aware that the extension portion ofa settee has heretofore been arranged in the manner described.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patentl. A settee with sectional extension side pieces hingedthereto and provided with legs, the same being so constructed andarranged as to be folded back around the settee and fastened together,as shown and described.

2. In combination with the sectional side pieces H H the brace-hooks O 0and Q and the dovetail slats M, as shown and described.

- CORNELIUS BEATTY.

Witnesses C. SEDGWIGK, T. B. MosHER.

